Case Name: Takeda Pharms. USA, Inc. v. West-Ward Pharm. Corp., Civ. No. 14-1268-SLR, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 155981 (D. Del. Nov. 4, 2014) (Robinson, J.) (Given statements made in the accused product’s proposed labeling,...more
Case Name: Par Pharm., Inc. v. TWI Pharms., Inc., No. 2014-1391, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 22737 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 3, 2014) (Circuit Judges O’Malley, Wallach, and Hughes presiding; Opinion by O’Malley, J.) (appeal from D. Md.,...more
Case Name: Sandoz Inc. v. Amgen Inc., No. 2014-1693, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 22903 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 5, 2014) (Circuit Judges Dyk, Taranto, and Chen presiding; Opinion by Taranto, J.) (appeal from N.D. Cal, Chesney, J.) (A...more
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ,
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Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Sandoz ,
Sandoz v Amgen
Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: The issue in this case is not whether the validity of the ’516 patent should be litigated in the antitrust trial, but rather, how the court’s previous finding of invalidity and...more
Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: The issue here concerns whether the owner of a pharmaceutical patent may simultaneously assert a claim for infringement under § 271(e)(2), and a claim pursuant to the Declaratory...more
Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: Depomed sued Actavis for infringing seven patents related to a dosage form capable of being retained in the stomach, allowing for the delayed-release of gabapentin in the small...more
Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: Plaintiff filed suit alleging infringement of claims 1, 16, 36, and 37 of each of the patents-in-suit. The patents-in-suit all claim pharmaceutical compositions containing propofol...more
Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: Apotex appealed the district court’s finding that the ’556 patent was unenforceable due to inequitable conduct. The ’556 patent describes a method for making moexipril tablets used...more
Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: The patents-in-suit claim oral dosage forms and method of treating menorrhagia and require three elements: (i) about 650 mg of tranexamic acid; (ii) a so-called modified release...more
Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: The issue of infringement in this case relates entirely to dissolution rates. Apotex sought to market its generic product by designing around Ferring’s Lysteda. In its 2010 ANDA,...more
Plaintiffs hold an NDA covering tablets containing two strengths of zolpidem tartrate, which is used in the treatment of middle-of-the-night insomnia. In July 2013, TWi Pharms., Inc. (“TWi”) submitted an ANDA containing a...more
This matter arises from a motion for summary judgment by Sandoz alleging that the ’117 patent is invalid since it was previously disclosed in the prior art U.S. Patent No. 4,668,814 (“the ’814 patent”). More specifically,...more
The ’007 patent covers pharmaceutical preparations in which treprostinil or treprostinil sodium is diluted with a high pH glycine buffer, and the methods of using those preparations in order to facilitate safer intravenous...more
The ’115 patent relates to formulations containing dextromethorphan and quinidine for the treatment of chronic or intractable pain. The ’282 and ’484 patents relate to the use of dextromethorphan and quinidine for the...more
The issues presented were whether defendant’s actions were sufficient to support declaratory judgment jurisdiction and whether defendant’s conduct supports a claim for patent infringement under 35 U.S.C. §...more
Lotronex was initially launched in 2000, but was subsequently removed from the market in light of serious side effects attributed to the drug. It was re-launched in 2002 with a new label. At the time, the ’770 patent was...more
Mylan filed a complaint on April 25, 2014, challenging a letter decision by the FDA, addressing the marketing exclusivity eligibility of celecoxib Abbreviated New Drug Application applicants. Mylan then filed a motion for...more
Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: Novartis sued Watson and Par alleging infringement of the patents-in-suit. Both patents share the same specification. The ’031 and ’023 patents claim pharmaceutical compositions,...more
The defendants include generic ANDA applicants (the “generic defendants”) and the API manufacturer, Johnson Matthey, Inc. and Johnson Matthey Pharmaceutical Materials (collectively “JM”). Six summary judgment motions were...more
Hoffman-La Roche (“Roche”) appeals from the decision of the district court granting defendants summary judgment of invalidity as to claims 1-8 of the ’634 patent and claims 1-10 of the ’957 patent. The asserted claims...more
Case Name: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmBH v. Glenmark Pharms Inc., 748 F.3d 1354 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 21, 2014) (Circuit Judges Newman, Linn and Wallach presiding; Opinion by Newman) (Appeal from D.N.J., Cavanaugh,...more
Case Name: Braintree Labs., Inc. v. Novel Labs., Inc., 749 F.3d 1349 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 22, 2014) (Circuit Judges Dyk, Prost, and Moore presiding; Opinion by Prost, J.; Concurrence-in-part and Dissent by Dyk, J.; Dissent by...more
Case Name: Gilead Sciences, Inc. v. Natco Pharma Ltd., 2013-1418, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 7494 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 22, 2014) (Circuit Judges Rader, Prost, and Chen presiding; Opinion by Chen, J.; Dissent by Rader, C.J.) (appeal from...more
Case Name: Allergan, Inc. v. Apotex, Inc., No. 2013-1245, -1246, -1247, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 10710 (Fed. Cir. June 10, 2014) (Circuit Judges Prost, Reyna and Chen presiding; Opinion by Prost, C.J.; Dissent-in-part by Chen,...more
Nature of the Case and Issue(s) Presented: BMS owns the ’244 patent, which covers a nucleoside analogue composed of two regions: a carbocyclic ring and a guanine base. Nucleoside analogues are known to mimic the activity of...more